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| Focus on psychological changes across life span |
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| Neurological disorder characterized by progressive loss of cognition and changes in personality |
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| Very serious disorder in which person is out of touch with reality |
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| Stages of Prenatal Development (corresponding ages) |
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1. Conception – sperm fertilizes egg
2. Germinal Period – first 2 weeks after conception
3. Embryonic Stage – 2 weeks to 3 months after conception
4. Fetal Period – 3 months and continuing through birth
Critical Period – period of highest potential for harmful substances to effect the fetus |
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| Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development |
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Sensory-Motor (0-2 yrs)
Preoperational (2-7yrs)
Concrete-Operational (7-11)
Formal Operational Stage (Adolescence – Adulthood) |
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Object permanence
Mental Representations
Self-Recognition (mirror image of oneself) |
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Increased ability to use mental representations (language dvlpmt)
Fantasy Play & Symbolic Gestures
Egocentrism
Piaget’s Experiment with liquid in a glass |
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| Concrete-Operational (7-11) |
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Thinking more flexible
See things from multiple perspectives
Understand Principles of Conservation
Amounts stay the same despite changes in appearance |
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| Formal Operational Stage (Adolescence – Adulthood) |
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Capable of abstract thought
Form hypotheses
Cause & Effect
Consider possibilities |
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| Types of Developmental Research/Study Methods: Cross-Sectional Study |
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| comparing people of different ages at the same time |
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| Types of Developmental Research/Study Methods: Longitudinal Study |
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| evaluating the same people at different states in their lives |
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| Types of Developmental Research/Study Methods: Biographical Study |
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| reconstructing people’s past via interviews to infer how past events impact current behaviors |
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| 3 Types of Developmental Research/Study Methods |
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Cross-sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
Biographical study |
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Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive |
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| A theory that supposes that one attempts to understand the behavior of others by attributing feelings, beliefs, and intentions to them |
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| Cognitive Dissonance theory |
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| Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously |
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